College Pressures! Very true

As I read this essay I identified with it because everything that is expressed through it are the real hardship an actual college student goes through. I have also learned that these are only the basics there are many more which come in with every different individual. Mr. William Zinsser started his essay out in a way that makes the reader crave about what he is going to talk about next. The expected audience is actual college students, parents and basically all the people affected by this “epidemic.”I call it an epidemic because every student goes through at least one of the hardships mentioned, most go through most. After he talks about the messages he introduces the man who the messages were left for, Carlos Hortas, who is a dean at Branford College. Amazing how people get so desperate they need someone to talk to, the last comment was very impacting, “Hey Carlos, good news! I’ve got mononucleosis.” The author of this essay wishes students could be able to pay more attention to little things rather than thinking that, “every step is a grim preparation for the next step.”He talked about the pressure put upon students by their professors, by their parents, and of course the economical pressure. Unfortunately economical pressure is the one that hit students harder and if their parents are paying for it then it is parental pressure. If parents pay for school they want a say in what their son or daughter are going to study, most likely they are going ask for high titles such as doctors or architects. These are only some of the hardship students, including me, go by every day. Always hoping for everything to miraculously disappear, but it doesn’t.

"A fable for tomorrow"(it could happen today!)

This story is very eye catchy because the author uses caparison and contrast to show us the difference of these two worlds she imagines. She is trying to demonstrate what danger human can do to their environment. As she begins she talks about this wonderful world where everyone lives in harmony, “The town lay in the midst of a checkboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.” Then once she has completely described the wonderful world, she talks about what that world became and says, “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of the new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.” She later proceeds to talk about how the actual town she has described didn’t go through everything she mentioned, but everywhere around the world communities have suffered at least one of all the results brought on to people because of people. In my opinion she is telling us to be aware of the world that surrounds us and not to let things slide by just because they are not happening to us. Awareness is the key factor of this essay, learn to care for other especially nature, that is the one that helps us survive.